ILMK’s WordPress stats for 2015

ILMK’s WordPress stats for 2015

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 460,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 20 days for that many people to see it.

While feelings are important, I also need to be able to justify to myself the time and energy I spend on the blog…and the subscribers are a very big part of that.

I also want to thank everybody who commented!

I always want to improve myself, and intelligent, empathetic, and respectful disagreements are one of the things which can most contribute to personal growth. I’ve learned a lot…both about the world and myself.

These were my top five commenters, according to the report:

Lady Galaxy

Edward Boyhan

Phink

Tom Semple

Harold Delk

Their criterion is just the number of comments, but I consider them extraordinary in several dimensions.🙂

The stat that blows my mind every year is the cosmopolitan nature of the blog…readers in 217 countries this year!

The United Nations has 193 member states.🙂

Here are those countries:

Country

Views

United States

297966

United Kingdom

60755

Australia

10815

Canada

10573

India

9914

Germany

4538

Ireland

3762

Singapore

3338

Spain

3017

France

2556

New Zealand

2442

Italy

2305

Brazil

2242

South Africa

2223

Poland

2104

Japan

1634

Hong Kong SAR China

1603

Philippines

1544

Mexico

1522

Netherlands

1304

Romania

1197

Israel

1103

Switzerland

1084

Turkey

1038

Hungary

971

Argentina

937

Czech Republic

933

Norway

927

Russia

855

Sweden

828

Vietnam

827

Thailand

794

South Korea

782

United Arab Emirates

750

Malaysia

718

Austria

702

Belgium

655

Bulgaria

636

Denmark

633

Indonesia

616

European Union

613

Taiwan

560

Ukraine

559

Pakistan

558

Slovakia

556

Portugal

513

Chile

492

Greece

469

Colombia

403

Saudi Arabia

386

Finland

383

El Salvador

354

Trinidad & Tobago

339

Croatia

330

Lithuania

267

Serbia

265

Egypt

265

Puerto Rico

261

Slovenia

260

Bangladesh

229

Peru

223

Jamaica

213

China

204

Costa Rica

196

Sri Lanka

193

Kenya

192

Dominican Republic

188

Nigeria

186

Venezuela

173

Nepal

165

Malta

163

Ecuador

161

Qatar

156

Bahamas

155

Guatemala

151

Belarus

146

Cyprus

136

Estonia

135

Barbados

132

Iceland

127

Luxembourg

119

Tanzania

117

Uruguay

116

Bahrain

115

Panama

114

Georgia

113

Lebanon

109

Latvia

108

Kuwait

106

Jersey

105

Morocco

104

Albania

98

Guernsey

95

Jordan

91

Isle of Man

88

Cambodia

87

Kazakhstan

80

Ghana

75

Bosnia & Herzegovina

75

Armenia

75

Mongolia

73

Oman

73

Uganda

71

Myanmar (Burma)

68

Ethiopia

65

Bolivia

63

Zimbabwe

62

Brunei

62

Moldova

59

Maldives

58

Honduras

57

Algeria

55

Guyana

54

Azerbaijan

54

Belize

52

Guam

51

Bermuda

48

Mauritius

48

Nicaragua

43

Gibraltar

43

Iraq

42

Antigua & Barbuda

41

Macau SAR China

40

Haiti

39

St. Lucia

39

Macedonia

37

Cayman Islands

35

Paraguay

33

Aruba

33

U.S. Virgin Islands

32

Montenegro

31

Zambia

31

Namibia

29

Tunisia

28

Kyrgyzstan

23

Rwanda

23

St. Kitts & Nevis

23

Botswana

23

Réunion

21

Suriname

21

Grenada

20

Turks & Caicos Islands

19

Curaçao

19

Afghanistan

18

Senegal

18

Mozambique

18

Laos

17

Malawi

16

St. Vincent & Grenadines

16

Sudan

15

British Virgin Islands

15

Fiji

13

Palestinian Territories

12

Dominica

12

Uzbekistan

11

Bhutan

10

Papua New Guinea

9

Angola

9

Monaco

9

Samoa

9

Cuba

9

Northern Mariana Islands

8

Libya

8

Guadeloupe

8

Cameroon

8

Madagascar

8

Seychelles

7

Vanuatu

7

Cape Verde

7

Djibouti

7

Burkina Faso

7

Sint Maarten

7

Côte d’Ivoire

6

Somalia

6

American Samoa

6

New Caledonia

6

Benin

6

Sierra Leone

6

Falkland Islands

5

Swaziland

5

Burundi

5

Mali

4

Martinique

4

Chad

4

Andorra

4

South Sudan

4

Liberia

4

Guinea

3

Congo – Kinshasa

3

St. Martin

3

Anguilla

3

Niger

3

Mauritania

3

Faroe Islands

3

Congo – Brazzaville

2

French Polynesia

2

Solomon Islands

2

Iran

2

Micronesia

2

Marshall Islands

2

Tajikistan

2

Syria

2

Gambia

2

Gabon

1

Togo

1

St. Helena

1

French Guiana

1

Vatican City

1

Yemen

1

Greenland

1

Timor-Leste

1

Eritrea

1

Caribbean Netherlands

1

Cook Islands

1

Liechtenstein

1

Mayotte

1

I’m always impressed with the number of views in countries which don’t have the legal sale of Kindles and Kindle content. I wonder how much of it is from people who are traveling there, and how much of it is from people who live there who are just interested in the topic. I assume some people find it by mistake🙂 but there are hundreds of views in some “Kindle free zones”. Honestly, of course, some people may also have the devices or content outside of their government’s policies.

The five most popular posts have a lot of overlap with last year, which doesn’t surprise me much. You can see last year’s here:

The “Reading Experience” post is impressive: clearly, that’s an important question for people still.

I’ll also say, it wouldn’t bother me at all if Amazon took note of these stats, and looked at revising their own Help Pages on the topics…

Finally, I want to note that the number of views was up by about 30,000…we can call that about an increase of about 14%! That’s not bad for a six-year old blog.😉 Looking at the posts, I do see I made fewer of them this year…I didn’t average quite a post a day (I had 335). It’s been a busy year for a lot of reasons, but I’ll try to step it up again in 2016 (although some of you may feel you get quite enough the way it is)😉 . I should hit my 3,000 post for the lifetime of the blog in January.

Once again, thanks to all of you for a wonderful 2015, and I’m looking forward to continuing the ILMK journey with you in 2016!

* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get. Shop ’til you help!

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other blogs/organizations, buy Amazon Gift Cards from a link on the site, then use those to buy your items. There will be no cost to you, and a benefit to them.

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8 Responses to “ILMK’s WordPress stats for 2015”

I can’t believe I was #3. Well, I have always been told I’m as windy as a preacher on Sunday. The first day I met my wife back in 1990 I talked and talked and talked. We were working together. Finally I said “Don’t you ever say anything?” She replied “Don’t you ever shut up.” My wife quite often has to endure the conversation with a stranger anytime we go to the store. Yep, I yap too much sometimes.

And I mean that…thanks for writing!🙂 I don’t think you’ve written too much here…I’ve enjoyed them!

I know I’ve said it on the blog before, but I have kidded people that I was once treated for a sunburned tongue. I often bring it up with classes. For example, when I am encouraging questions: “For me, questions are the fun part. You’ve probably noticed: I like to talk. But not even I would lecture in an empty room for eight hours…after two or three hours, I’d get bored.”😉

Well golly, Bufo, can’t believe I’m number 5 commenter as I’ve tried to be a bit quieter this year. Based upon a slightly wacky sort of interpolation from “Their criterion is just the number of comments, but I consider them extraordinary in several dimensions” I’ve concluded that I’m the Fifth Dimension. Both Doctor Who and Mr. Murakami would be proud; the musical group not so much so.

I’ve enjoyed and learned from you and from the commenters as well for yet another year and be assured I’ll be sticking around in the future. This has been a great year in EBR and Fire for innovation and improvements and with Alexa joining the mix more every day I predict 2016 will be another breakout tech year. Early indicators leading up to CES lead with the Echo having lots of competition since it is an open system and we’ll see a myriad of new devices and services being connected to the world of voice control. Now that we can listen to Kindle and Audible books via Alexa we may expect a further blending of the services and an increase in the meshing from our online libraries without having to resort to Bluetooth for Kindle books. I currently listen to books both ways as well as read on my Paperwhite; the synchronization is mostly seamless. Both Audible and TTS have improved considerably. I know your preference is TTS, but I enjoy them both as they both have their advantages and disadvantages to me. I don’t mind the actors interpretations as much as I dislike the computer generated voice … and it has gotten very much better in the past year. I reckon I’ll always like plays over monologues. To each his or her own.

Thank you, Bufo, for all you do for our ever-growing community and thank you to the contributors to the discussions as well. All of you make all of us better informed and enlightened readers. May your New Year be fifth dimensional.